High Wind, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area
- When
- February 22, 12:00 AM AST to February 25, 11:59 PM AST
- Where
- Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
High Wind in Alaska, February 22 to 25, 1996
A very intense 955 mb low curved northward by Attu, in the extreme western Aleutians, around noon Friday. Peak winds ranged from 40 to 50 mph at Shemya from Thursday through Sunday.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.
A very intense 955 mb low curved northward by Attu, in the extreme western Aleutians, around noon Friday. Peak winds ranged from 40 to 50 mph at Shemya from Thursday through Sunday. At Adak, gusts reached 63 mph on Thursday. Gusts at Adak did not get below 40 mph until Sunday.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Colorado, February 22, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, February 22, 1996
- Dense Fog in Vermont, February 22 to 23, 1996
- Tornado in California, February 22, 1996
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, February 22, 1996
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, February 22 to 23, 1996
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, February 22 to 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, February 22, 1996
- Dense Fog in Florida, February 22, 1996
- Flooding in Maine, February 22 to 25, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 22 to 24, 1996
- High Wind in Oregon, February 22 to 23, 1996
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5541063.